Thursday, June 9, 2011

Your Thursday Boring Postcard from Michael5000


MACKAY SCHOOL OF MINES -- a college of the University of Nevada Reno.  At left old Mackay School of Mines building -- museum, offices, labs.  In center Mines Wing of Scrugham Engineering-Mines building -- Nevada Bureau of Mines & Geology/Mining Analytical Laboratory.  At right new School of Mines building housing teaching departments -- Geological Sciences, Chemical Engineering-Metallurgy, Mining Engineering.  In front, old building  famous statue of John Mackay, original benefactor of MSM.


Provenance: Purchased at a postcard dork trade show, April 2011.

5 comments:

Jennifer said...

UNR! Go Pack!

Elaine said...

That blurb is almost incomprehensible!

Ben said...

I agree with Elaine. I couldn't figure out which buildings they were talking about in the blurb. "In front..."? I see grass.

Dug said...

They must be mining some serious water to be able to grow trees like that in Nevada.

Michael5000 said...

I think my favorite moment is the "building housing teaching" triplet -- now THAT's copywriting! The caption is doubly near-incomprehensible, by the way, in that it is rendered in an incredibly tiny font. I have good eyes at short range, but I had to use a special light to be able to read it.

@Jennifer: What, am I going on a trip?